¹Ndinotaura chokwadi muna Kristu, handinyepi, hana yangu ichindipupurira muMweya Mutsvene,

¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

²kuti ndinoshushikana kwazvo neshungu dzisingaperi mumoyo mangu.

²that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

³Nekuti ndaishuva kuti ini ndomene ndipiwe rushambwa kuna Kristu nekuda kwehama dzangu, ivo verudzi rwangu panyama;

³For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

⁴ndivo vaIsraeri vane kuitwa vana nekubwinya nesungano nekupiwa kwemurairo, neushumiri, nezvivimbiso;

⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;

⁵madzibaba ndeavo, naKristu wakabva kwavari panyama, iye uri pamusoro pezvose, Mwari unokudzwa narinhi. Ameni.

⁵whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Kwete shoko raMwari serakakundikana. Nekuti havazi vaIsraeri vose vakabva kuvaIsraeri;

⁶But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

⁷Kana nekuti imbeu yaAbhurahamu, vose vana, asi zvinonzi: Kuna Isaka ndiko kuchatumidzwa mbeu yako.

⁷neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸Ndiko kuti: Avo vari vana venyama, ava havasi vana vaMwari; asi vana vechivimbiso vanoverengerwa kumbeu.

⁸That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

⁹Nekuti iri ishoko rechivimbiso rinoti: Nenguva ino ndichauya, uye Sara uchava nemwanakomana.

⁹For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁰Handizvo chete; asi Ribhekawo wakati ava nemimba kune umwe, iye Isaka baba vedu;

¹⁰And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--

¹¹nekuti vana vasati vaberekwa, kana kumboita chakanaka kana chakaipa kuti zano raMwari maererano nesananguro risimbiswe, kwete namabasa, asi naiye unodana,

¹¹for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

¹²zvakanzi kwaari: Mukuru uchashumira mudoko,

¹²it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³Sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Jakobho ndakamuda, asi Esau ndakamuvenga.

¹³Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

¹⁴Zvino tichatiyi? Kusarurama kuriko kuna Mwari here? Ngazvisadaro!

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

¹⁵Nekuti unoti kuna Mozisi: Ndichava netsitsi kune wandichava netsitsi naye, ndichava netsitsi kune wandinetsitsi naye.

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

¹⁶Naizvozvo zvino hazvisi zveunoda, kana unomhanya, asi zvaMwari unonzwira tsitsi.

¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

¹⁷Nekuti Rugwaro runoti kuna Farao: Ndizvozvi zvandakakumutsira, kuti ndiratidze simba rangu mauri, uye kuti zita rangu riparidzwe panyika yose.

¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.

¹⁸Naizvozvo unonzwira tsitsi iye waanoda; uye unowomesa moyo wewaanoda.

¹⁸So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.

¹⁹Zvino iwe uchati kwandiri: Iye uchawanirei mhosva? Nekuti ndiani ungapikisa kuda kwake?

¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

²⁰Haiwa, asi iwe munhu ndiwe ani unokakavadzana naMwari? Ko chinhu chakaumbiwa chingati here kune wakaumba: Wandiitirei sezvizvi?

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

²¹Ko muumbi haana simba pamusoro pevhu here, kuti nebundu rimwe aite mudziyo umwe unokudzwa, neumwe unozvidzwa?

²¹Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

²²Zvino kana Mwari achida kuratidza kutsamwa kwake, nekuita kuti simba rake rizikamwe, atakura nemoyo murefu midziyo yekutsamwirwa yakagadzirirwa kuparadzwa;

²²What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

²³uye kuti azivise fuma yokubwinya kwake pamidziyo yetsitsi, yaakagara agadzirira kubwinya,

²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

²⁴yaakadanawo uye yatiri isu, kusiri kuvaJudha chete, asi nekuvahedheni?

²⁴[even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵Sezvaanorevawo kuna Hosiya achiti: Vakange vasi vanhu vangu ndichavaidza vanhu vangu; naiye wakange asingadikamwi mudikamwa.

²⁵As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

²⁶Zvino zvichaitika kuti panzvimbo pakanzi kwavari: Hamuzi vanhu vangu, ipapo vachaidzwa vana vaMwari mupenyu.

²⁶And it shall be, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

²⁷Isaya unodanidzirawo maererano naIsraeri achiti: Kunyange uwandu hwevana vaIsraeri hukaita sejecha regungwa, vakasara vachaponeswa;

²⁷And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

²⁸nekuti uchapedza basa nekugurisira mukururama nekuti basa rakagurisirwa richaitwa naMwari panyika.

²⁸for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

²⁹Sezvaakagara zvareva Isaya, achiti: Kunze kwekuti Ishe wehondo atisiira mbeu, tingadai takaitwa seSodhoma, takaitwa vakafanana neGomora.

²⁹And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

³⁰Zvino tichatiyi? Kuti vahedheni vasingatsvaki kururama, ndivo vakawana kururama, iko kururama kwerutendo;

³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹asi Israeri achitsvakisisa murairo wekururama, haana kusvika pamurairo wekururama.

³¹but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

³²Nei? Nekuti havana kutsvaka nerutendo, asi nezvainge namabasa emurairo, nekuti vakagumburwa nebwe rinogumbura.

³²Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

³³Sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Tarira, ndinogadza paZiyoni ibwe rekugumbura, nedombo rekupinganidza; uye ani nani unotenda kwaari haanganyadziswi.

³³even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.